Millville has a few features that distinguish it from other South Jersey cities. We should showcase them in our continuing effort to attract business and industry.

We have the airport, Union Lake, the Maurice River, the Hurley and Lascarides industrial parks, the New Jersey Motorsports Park and the Levoy Theatre. These are all assets, but other cities have similar features.

However, I challenge any other city to boost that it has two, not one, but two bridges to nowhere. The first is Waltman Park. The latest, also proposed and designed by city engineer Rich Jones is the $400,000 stainless steel bridge at the end of an uneven, debris strewn, overgrown dirt path along the broken down docks off of Ware Avenue. It goes from the rough dirt path to a 6-feet-high cyclone fence that protects the old Foster Forbes glass warehouses. Picturesque, I believe is the word.

I challenge anyone to match it. It’s world class.

Dennis Schwegel

Millville

Break gridlock byapproving balancedbudget measure

Although the United States faces two years of divided government, having a Democratic president and Republican Congress need not bring total gridlock. This is an opportunity to pass reforms that will not take effect until 2017 or later, when either party may hold the White House or Congress, and the partisan impact of such reforms is unclear.

One such bill would reform the budget process by requiring future presidents to submit a balanced budget to Congress. This could be phased in, allowing the president to show steadily shrinking deficits for perhaps the first five years, and a balanced budget from that point forward.

A balanced budget proposal from the president would provide an important starting point for the debate over government spending. It would force the president and his cabinet to determine priorities. Congress, in their budget debates, would have to explain why additional spending was so important that it would justify running a deficit.

The last time that this nation had a Democratic president and a Republican Congress they balanced the budget while also cutting taxes. Surely President Obama and the 114th Congress can agree on this modest legislation, a small first step toward a balanced budget.

Peter J. Thomas

Chairman

Americans for Constitutional Liberty/

The Conservative Caucus

Clean up all thesigns that arebreakin’ my mind

Now that the election is over, Cumberland County is left with a massive amount of roadside signs. How long will it take before all of them have been picked up by the people that placed them there?

This reminds me of a lyric from the song “Signs” from 1971 by The Five Man Electrical Band: